Crime
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Mental health online: Police posts of crises may traumatize
Aug 23, 2021 7:00 am - EDITOR'S NOTE - This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255....
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Internal probe clears officer in Capitol riot shooting
Aug 23, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - An officer who shot and killed a woman during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as she began to climb through the broken part of a door leadi...
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Proud Boys leader who burned BLM flag gets 5 months in jail
Aug 23, 2021 7:00 am - The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a h...
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Leather chairs, soothing room: An alternative to jail in Lake CountyAug 23, 2021 5:30 am - Lake County sheriff's deputies now have the option to bring people they encounter who need mental health care to a special crisis intervention center in Waukegan. In do...
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Two detained after standoff at Downers Grove motelAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - A standoff involving a police SWAT unit at a Downers Grove motel ended peacefully early Monday morning with two people detained by police, authorities said. Downers Grov...
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Suspect charged in St. Charles muggingAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - A 31-year-old man from Houston was charged with felony armed robbery after a mugging Sunday in St. Charles. About midnight, officers responded to the 0-99 block of Nort...
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DuPage state's attorney says fatal Villa Park police shooting was justifiedAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - A Lombard resident killed by a Villa Park police officer in May was trying to get the police to kill him, according to DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin. Berl...
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Carpentersville man guilty of aggravated sexual abuse of minorAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - A Carpentersville man was found guilty Thursday of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Jose Rodriguez-Delgado, 41, of the 0-100 block of Ash Street, had a bench trial befo...
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Plainfield man charged in fatal Fox Lake crashAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - A 57-year-old Plainfield man has been charged with DUI and reckless homicide in a five-vehicle crash on June 5 in Fox Lake that left a Wisconsin man dead. John Buckley,...
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Cuomo's drive to dominate led to success, and his downfall
Aug 22, 2021 7:00 am - Back in 2018, when there was talk he might run for president, Andrew Cuomo insisted there was only one reason he would leave office early. And it wasn't the White House....